Stephen Fry Quotes

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

I think what's cool about a body-switching movie is, 'The grass is always greener:' the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It's the exact opposite of how it's supposed to be.

The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.

I'm so lucky. I've met a lot of famous people.

Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.

This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.